Having all Views in the Shared folder - works but is throwing "caught exceptions". Performance concern??

Question

Hi everyone,

I have a simple but heavily used app done in VS2010/MVC2. I didn't like having separate folders for each view/controller and so have all the views in the Shared folder. It's working fine but while debugging in VS, I noticed that it's throwing IO "caught exceptions" since it seems to be looking in the [FolderName]/[ViewName] folder before going down to the Shared folder.

Again, the app runs fine but I'm concerned that all these "caught exceptions" will have a minor performance impact since they do have a cost in via the CLR. Is there any way I can configure the Routing so that it will only look in the Shared folder?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In Debug mode yes, in Release mode view locations are cached, so don't worry about performance unless you are shipping your site in Debug mode. Check out this post.